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Eye health is available, but not yet to everyone. The new World Health Organization (WHO) action plan calls for ‘universal eye health’, a new framework to scale up services and expand access to all. ‘Towards Universal Eye Health: A Global Action Plan 2014–2019’ was unanimously adopted by the 194 member states at the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the WHO. The International A...

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This Editorial is to commemorate “World AIDS Day” by increasing the awareness of AIDS, its treatment and prevention strategies. Education is the single most crucial factor that can eradicate AIDS. On the World AIDS Day, let us commit ourselves to learning and educating the world the scourge of AIDS. What is World AIDS Day? (http://www.worldaidsday. org/about-world-aids-day.php) World AIDS Day i...

*Corresponding Author: Prof. Hajieh Shahbazian, Diabetes Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: World diabetes day was introduced by the international diabetes federation (IDF) and WHO in 1991, in response to increasing prevalence of diabetes around the wo...

Every day, worldwide, tens of thousands of people’s lives are changed for the worse because of a stroke. In the United States, every 45 seconds someone will suffer a new or recurrent stroke; every 3.1 minutes someone will die from a stroke.1 Others will have warnings of stroke, which will go largely unheeded, and if heeded, often will go unaddressed. And yet, many strokes can be prevented and t...

The World Hypertension League is encouraging all of us to focus our attention on hypertension through designation of May 17, 2007, as “World Hypertension Day.”1 Most of the readers of Hypertension will pay more attention to this encouragement than the average person. But, even many of us who focus much of our life on patient care or research related to hypertension need to pause and consider th...